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Living With Broken Windows

10-Mar-08

In 1982, The Atlantic published an article by George Kelling and James Wilson called Broken Windows. In this article, the authors said that
…at the community level, disorder and crime are usually inextricably linked, in a kind of developmental sequence. Social psychologists and police officers tend to agree that if a window in a building is [...]

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Pragmatic Living

01-Mar-08

I’m re-reading The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, to get myself into a good frame of mind for a programming project I’m about to begin.
What distinguishes Pragmatic Programmers? We feel it’s an attitude, a style, a philosophy of approaching problems and their solutions. They think beyond the immediate [...]

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